Good Morning! Highlights of today’s digest include several AACR Cancer Research meeting abstracts on microbiome profiling which are promising for development of early detection cancer or treatment-associated-toxicity biomarkers and novel probiotics that can prevent HPV infections-associated cancers and oropharyngeal cancers, development of non-invasive health monitoring tools for endangered humpback whales from East Australia, and re-assemblage of rhizosphere microbiome of medicinal Chinese ginseng or Sanqi. Finally, check out the news about development of a food supplement, expected to be commercialized by 2021 and suggested only to be used as a complementary approach -not a replacement of appropriate dietary habits, that involves a probiotic gut bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila to improve metabolism and metabolic factors in obesity, type II diabetes and inflammatory bowel diseases.

Human oral microbiome

Meeting Abstract: Mucositis, candidiasis, and associations with the oral microbiome in treatment naive patients with oropharyngeal cancer – Pierce et al. – AACR Cancer Research

Multi-site human microbiome

Meeting Abstract: The microbiota associated to cervical and anal HPV infections in a Hispanic population – Vazquez-Sanchez et al. – AACR Cancer Research

Animal microbiome

Review: Coral microbiome dynamics, functions and design in a changing world – van Oppen et al. – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Interannual comparison of core taxa and community composition of the blow microbiota from East Australian humpback whales – Vendl et al. – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Ecological Processes Shaping Bulk Soil and Rhizosphere Microbiome Assembly in a Long-Term Amazon Forest-to-Agriculture Conversion – Goss-Souza et al. – Microbial Ecology

Mycorrhizal frequency, physiological parameters, and yield of strawberry plants inoculated with endomycorrhizal fungi and rhizosphere bacteria – Mikiciuk et al. – Mycorrhiza

Negative plant-soil feedback driven by re-assemblage of the rhizosphere microbiome with the growth of Panax notoginseng – Zhu et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water and extermophile microbiome

Microbial communities in a flow-through fish farm for lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.) during healthy rearing conditions – Roalkvam et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Dietary Resistant Potato Starch Alters Intestinal Microbial Communities and Their Metabolites, and Markers of Immune Regulation and Barrier Function in Swine – Trachsel et al. – Frontiers in Immunology

Phages and viruses

Virome capture sequencing does not identify active viral infection in unicentric and idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease – Nabel et al. – PLOS ONE

Wide distribution of phage that infect freshwater SAR11 bacteria – Chen et al. – BioRxiv

Techniques

Meeting Abstract: Microbial sequencing using a single-pool target enrichment of multiple variable regions of the 16S rRNA gene, the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, and antimicrobial resistance genes – Peck et al. – AACR Cancer Research

Microbes in the news

Microbiome Food Supplement Improves Metabolic Syndrome in Overweight People – Smith – Labiotech.eu Newsletter